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er008
Jan 10, 2022Iron Contributor
Allow muting a person only for me
Sometimes I am in a meeting where one of the persons in the meeting is actually near me in the world outside the screen. In this case the sound is a bit maddening since there is a small delay between the sound from the person and the sound through the teams interface. In these cases, I would like to mute the person only for me since I am sitting near and can hear the person fine without headphones. Right now I need to takeoff headphones when the person is talking and putting it back as the person finishes talking.
- bertufarrugiaCopper Contributor
Please implement this feature ASAP, it is truly essential
- Stuart2106Copper Contributor
On behalf of everyone in the world working with Teams in the office: please implement this feature. Teams is practically unusable with multiple people in the same room connecting to the same session. The echo caused by the small delay between real voice and voice output through the headset is so annoying.
- LinusConradsonActiaCopper ContributorHow can it still be impossible to mute/unmute a specific person only for me?! Awful lack of a feature.
- Martin_KalchgruberCopper Contributor
Moving to a conference room and using its audio system is sometimes not practical and often just not possible.
Maybe if Microsoft provided some "virtual" equivalent of a meeting room and treat all headset microphones as being part of that room, this could also solve that issue.
- karen_dredskeSteel Contributorpaul_menhart and Martin_Kalchgruber have you tried voice isolation yet in Teams? I think that will solve your problem and I saw something about this getting automatically turned on in meetings where people are in the same room early next year.
- AscendorBrass Contributor
karen_dredske I think you misunderstand the problem, or voice isolation, or both.
Voice isolation makes sure that your microphone only submits your own voice, nothing else.
The problem people have, is that they hear people twice: Once over the (literal) air, because they are sitting next to each other, and once via cable, via MS Teams.
Voice isolation can not help this.
- paul_menhartCopper ContributorThe fact that this is still not possible is actually embarrassing.
Not being able to mute colleagues in the same room makes using Teams painful or downright impossible in some scenarios. At our company its has become common practice that everyone leaves the room and finds an empty office space whenever we need to join a Teams-Meeting together. Welcome in 2024. - jonbayle_equisignCopper ContributorPlease, I'm begging you, this is driving me crazy, can't stand hearing that specific colleague in double!
- BierbrauerCopper ContributorIt would be extra nice to have "room tags". When in a meeting the meeting author or everybody could have the possibility to create and assign room tags to people. Once I tagged me and my colleagues with "Room 321", noone with that tag will hear the mic of the others with the tag...
- ijduncan80Copper Contributorlooking for this feature now
- nick2165Copper ContributorThink that you should think about this in the reverse. Rather than muting get a feature that is "do not play back sound from this participant" against your user so it is the receiving end of the stream rather than the sending side being muted
- SimonP1365Copper Contributor
nick2165Exactly. However all members of a Teams chat get the same audio mixed at the server and streamed to everyone. We don't get individual audio streams from each participant so the basic stuff like muting a specific user so it is muted for everyone is possible, but any further customisation is not.
In order to mute specific users just for you, Teams would have to mix an audio stream specifically for you. Nice and easy: not a bandwidth problem, but Teams doesn't work like that.
Obviously, what we'd like Teams to do is to work 'like that'.- AscendorBrass Contributor
That doesn't make sense to me. If every member of a Teams chat received the same audio, I would hear my own echo. I don't.
- dpammentBrass ContributorYeah, that is what we are all talking about, only muting the user to yourself, not muting it at the sender end, that wouldnt make sense.
- Martin_KalchgruberCopper Contributor
We also need this feature.
- BierbrauerCopper ContributorMicrosoft is pushing new work in their own offices, so there is NO WAY they don't have the same request themselves...